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pamper

/ˈpæm.pə(ɹ)/US/ˈpæm.pɚ/

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pamper verb: to treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence. Also the alternative form of pampers.

Verb

pamper (third-person singular simple present pampers, present participle pampering, simple past and past participle pampered)

  1. (transitive) To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
    • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    coddle
  2. (dated) To feed luxuriously.
  3. (informal, chiefly ABDL) To put someone in pampers (a diaper).

Also used as

pamper is also the alternative form of pampers.

pamper meaning in Arabic, Malay and Thai

pamper in Arabic

to treat with excessive care, to indulge
دَلَّلَ dallala, دَلَّعَ dallaʕa, غَنَّجَ ḡannaja

pamper in Malay

to treat with excessive care, to indulge
manja

pamper in Thai

to treat with excessive care, to indulge
เอาใจ ao-jai

Examples of pamper in a sentence

  • Sometimes even the most precious pamper packer princess wants to role play, hmm?
  • As I say, we’re both out of work and both of them are still in pampers.
  • A pampers—from where might Hudson Bay’s notoriously whimsical currents have brought it?

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Synonyms of pamper

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Forms of pamper

Verb
third-person singular presentpampers
present participlepampering
past participlepampered
pastpampered
Noun
pluralpampers

Past tense of pamper: pampered

Origin of pamper

From Middle English pamperen (“to cram with food”), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pamp- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”), equivalent to pamp + -er. Cognate with West Flemish pamperen (“to cram with food, overindulge”), Middle Low German pampen (“to stuff oneself”), dialectal German pampfen (“to cram”), dialectal Danish pampe (“to boast, brag”).

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Questions about pamper

What does pamper mean?
Pamper means to treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
What is pamper in Arabic?
Pamper in Arabic is دَلَّلَ (dallala), دَلَّعَ (dallaʕa), غَنَّجَ (ḡannaja). See Pamper meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is pamper?
Pamper is a verb.
How do you pronounce pamper?
Pamper is pronounced /ˈpæm.pə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the past tense of pamper?
The past tense of pamper is pampered.

Words near pamper in the dictionary

  1. pampelmoeses
  2. pampelmoose
  3. pampelmooses
  4. pampelmouse
  5. pampelmouses
  6. pamper
  7. pamper packed
  8. pamper packer
  9. pamper packers
  10. pamper packing
  11. pamper-packer

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